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Light is amazing ~ some factoids

Light is amazing ~ some factoids

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It also helps me locate the fridge.

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so let me get this right if you are driving your car at the speed of light and you turn your headlight on ......nothing happens ?

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Actually it doesn't. "Rising of the sun" is from earth perspective...

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so if light has 0 mass why cant it escape a black hole? and surely sun rise is the motion of the earth not the sun actualy moving or amI wrong?and light even with 0 mass can be bent in a vacum.

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@david-burton said
so let me get this right if you are driving your car at the speed of light and you turn your headlight on ......nothing happens ?
If you are driving your car at the speed of light sir, your headlights are the least of your problems.

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A single photon of light can travel through two parallel slits simultaneously. This is very weird.
Many physicists think this proves we are living in a simulation.

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A photon checked into a hotel.
The porter offered to carry his bags.
He replied 'its ok, I'm travelling light.'

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A few years ago Stamford University slowed light down to 27mph.
Then Harvard slowed light down to zero.

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